Those Famous Ferrographs'

If you have a still from a vintage (or modern) film or television proggramme (on video) featuring a Ferrograph recorder or of a machine that features a Wearite deck, please email me at the following address and we will pop it on this page. These machines often turn up as props!

BBC Reporting Scotland ran this news story featuring The pirate radio station, "Radio Scotland" on the 6.30pm main bulletin (10th Jan 2006). The archive film footage used dates from 1966 and was available on DVD for a short while with narration by Tony Currie. The shots appear to show Series YD6 machines designed for console/rack mounting work.

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A Ferrograph Series YD5 featured in The Ipcress File (released in 1965 by Rank) . Evidently the company was happy to provide a machine on loan to the film makers, in return the Ferro is seen in shot for just a few seconds and in the first few minutes of the film. This is probably the best remembered scene featuring  a working Ferro as a prop.

A scene from Carry on Spying originally released in 1964 and now available again on DVD. One of over 30 films featuring the Carry On theme but is not quite as often shown as some of the other titles. Here we see a Series 5 machine taking a hammering. In fact you could say that the machine is being used as a weapon to commit ABH ! Probably the only documented use of a Ferro this manner. We don't condone this sort of abuse on these venerable machines by the way !!!

"Carry on" pictures kindly supplied by Andrew Button.

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